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Or the horrifying American Fruit Company (Chiquita now) in South America ?
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Who was it that sent a gunboat to Hawaii and ousted their government, then demanded it be a state. The feds resisted for a while but that's how we got Hawaii - at a fruit company mercenary gunpoint.

That was Dole, according to the Hawaiians I know.



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